Three people, including a woman, her son and daughter, were killed and three other family members were injured when a high-tension wire fell on a family sleeping at the roadside outside the house in Bisauli Kotwali Nagar area in Budaun district on Thursday/Friday night.
According to reports, the wire of the high-tension power line suddenly broke down on Nayi Basti Idgah road in Bisauli Nagar late on Thursday night and fell on a family. While Sajid Khan’s wife Ishrat Bi (47), his daughter Nikki (30) and son Arun Khan alias Allu (25) died on the spot, Sajid Khan, Aslam Khan and Anib Khan were seriously burnt.
The police rushed the injured to a community health centre from where they were referred to the district hospital in a critical condition. The police sent the bodies of the three deceased for post-mortem.
Budaun District Magistrate Manoj Kumar confirmed that three members of a family died due to electrocution while three others were critically injured.
He said that the families of the deceased would be given a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each and benefits of other government schemes.
Kumar said that the officials of the power corporation had been instructed to make arrangements for security under the high-tension wires passing over houses across the district and repair the dangling wires immediately.
He said that people had unauthorisedly built houses under the high-tension wires and no objection certificate (NOC) had been obtained from the local office of the power corporation. Efforts will be made to make people aware by conducting a survey for this, he added.
Meanwhile, an 80-year-old man died after being attacked and chased by monkeys in Farrukhabad district.
The man, identified as Khuda Baksh of Ghasia Chilauli village in Kotwali area, was sitting on the terrace of his house when the monkeys pounced on him and chased him, causing him to fall off the terrace. He sustained serious head injury. The family members took him to the community health centre where the doctor pronounced him dead.
Residents said the authorities should tackle the monkey menace as it had claimed many lives. The monkey menace in the area has become so dangerous that people have started hiring langurs to keep the monkeys at bay.